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Drone & UAV Routing API

Routing for things that fly.

A drone moving at 20 m/s has under a second to react to a new no-fly zone, a wind gust or another aircraft. Our engine re-plans the path in milliseconds — by updating only what changed, never starting over.

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What it does

A path-planning and re-planning engine that sits behind your flight stack or ground station.

Plan the path

Lowest-cost route across your airspace graph — shortest time, least energy, or your own cost mix (wind, payload, battery, terrain).

Re-plan instantly

A new no-fly zone, weather cell or aircraft becomes a small cost change. We re-route in the time others take to load the map.

Deconflict the fleet

Plan many craft together so their paths do not collide — and re-plan the whole fleet when one corridor closes.

Run anywhere

On the ground station, in your cloud, or on the craft's own compute. Light enough for a low-power flight controller.

Live asset view

Register each craft, attach the planned path, stream position — see live vs route on our tracking dashboard or via API. Battery % optional in telemetry.

Who it is for

Delivery drones — last-mile, BVLOS corridors eVTOL & air taxis — urban air mobility Survey & inspection — power lines, pipelines, farms Agriculture — spray & scout patterns Emergency & medical — fast dynamic re-tasking Logistics fleets — many craft, one airspace Government / defence — optional category on API

The API

REST over HTTPS. Send coordinates, get a path and turn-by-turn waypoints. Re-route by sending what changed.

# Plan a path
POST /v1/route
{ "from": [-26.10,28.05], "to": [-26.20,27.86] }

# Re-route — send only the change (a closed corridor, a new zone)
POST /v1/reroute
{ "from": [...], "to": [...], "prev_geometry": [...], "incident_index": 42 }

# Optimise the order of many waypoints (survey, multi-drop)
POST /v1/optimize
{ "depot": [...], "stops": [[...],[...],[...]] }

# Live tracking — register craft, attach route, push GPS, poll live vs plan
POST /v1/assets
{ "name": "Delivery-07", "category": "drone" }
POST /v1/assets/id/route
{ "from": [...], "to": [...] }
POST /v1/assets/id/position
{ "lat": -26.12, "lng": 28.05, "battery_pct": 78 }
GET  /v1/assets/id/live
# → position + planned_route + off_route_m · poll rate = subscription tier
CapabilityStatusNotes
2-D path planning & re-routing● LiveSame engine that powers the live map demo today.
Minimal-delta re-route (millisecond class)● LiveUpdates only the changed segment — our core advantage.
Multi-waypoint optimisation● LiveSurvey grids, multi-drop delivery.
Live asset tracking (web + API)● LiveDashboard + /v1/assets/*/live; rate limits per plan.
3-D altitude layers & climb cost◆ Rolling outVertical corridors and energy-aware climb.
No-fly / geofence ingestion◆ Rolling outImport your airspace and restriction data as cost zones.
UTM / airspace-authority hooks◆ PartnerWe provide the routing layer; we integrate with your UTM and approvals.
Honest scope. Elara provides the path-planning and re-routing engine. It is not an airspace authority and does not grant flight clearance. You bring your airspace, restriction and approval data; we make the routing on top of it faster than anything else. Certified-airspace and UTM integrations are delivered with partners.